[Amended 7-12-1982; 3-12-1984; 6-10-1985; 12-8-1986; 4-11-1988; 5-10-1993; 2-12-1996; 12-8-1997; 3-17-2008; 2-10-2014; 5-8-2017; 4-8-2019; 3-21-2022]
A. Parking meters providing for a maximum of three hours of parking
at a charge of $1.50 per hour, to be in effect from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00
p.m. daily, shall be installed at the following locations:
(1) North side of Second Street from Savannah Road to two spaces west
of Market Street.
(2) Market Street on both sides from Second Street to Third Street.
(3) Bank Street on both sides from Second Street to Front Street.
(4) South side of Second Street from Savannah Road to Mulberry Street.
(5) 1812 Municipal Parking Lot, Front Street.
(6) South side of Front Street from a point 15 feet east of Neils Alley
extending 66 feet in an easterly direction.
(7) South side of West Third Street from a point 24 feet from Market
Street extending in an easterly direction 142 feet to Chestnut Street.
(8) South side of West Third Street from a point 15 feet from Chestnut
Street extending 160 feet in an easterly direction, recognizing that
the designated loading space will be metered parking only outside
of designated loading space hours.
[Amended 4-10-2023]
(9) West Third Street Municipal Parking Lot.
(10)
Canalfront Park Municipal Parking Lot, Front Street.
(11)
West side of Kings Highway, from the intersection with Third
Street, 335 feet south to the boundary of Zwaanendael Park.
B. Parking meters for a maximum of nine hours of parking at a charge
of $2.50 per hour, to be in effect from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily,
shall be installed in the following locations:
(1) The lot situated at the end of Savannah Road on Lewes Beach fronting
on Lewes Beach adjacent to Delaware Bay, known as Savannah Beach.
(2) The lot situated on the north side of Cape Henlopen Drive from a
point 1,289 feet from the intersection of Savannah Road and Cape Henlopen
Drive, known as Johnnie Walker Beach.
The Commissioner of Streets shall have lines or markings painted
or placed upon the curb or street adjacent to each parking meter for
the purpose of designating the parking space for which said meter
is to be used, and each vehicle parked adjacent or next to any parking
meter shall park within the lines or markings so established. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of this article to park any vehicle across
any such line or marking or to park said vehicle in such a position
that the same shall not be entirely within the area so designated
by such lines or markings.
[Amended 3-13-1995]
Upon all avenues, streets and municipal parking lots of the
City, where other than parallel parking is permitted, vehicles shall
be parked within the space designated, with the front of the vehicle
facing toward the curb and/or parking bumper.
When any vehicle shall be parked in any space adjacent to which
a parking meter is located in accordance with the provisions of this
article, the operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering the said
parking space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said
parking meter such proper coin as is designated by directions on the
parking meter, and failure to deposit such proper coin shall constitute
a breach of this article and shall subject such person to the penalty
prescribed. Such deposit must be made whether or not the meter shows
unexpired time. Upon the deposit of such proper coin and placing said
meter in operation, the parking space may be lawfully occupied by
such vehicle during the period of parking time which has been prescribed
for the part of the street in which said parking space is located.
If said vehicle shall remain parked in any such parking space beyond
the parking time limit fixed for such parking space, the parking meter
shall by its dial and pointer indicate such illegal parking, and,
in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as parked overtime
and beyond the period of legal parking time, and the parking of a
vehicle overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time in any
such part of a street where any such meter is located shall be a violation
of this article and shall be punished as hereafter set out.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
article for any person to cause or allow or permit or suffer any vehicle
registered in the name of or operated by such person to be parked
overtime or beyond the period of legal parking time established for
any parking meter zone as herein described or without depositing the
fee prescribed.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this article to deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter anything other than
a proper coin of the United States.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this
article for any person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully
break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed
under the provisions of this article.
[Amended 3-13-1995]
Except as provided in Subsection A of this section, any person,
upon conviction of a violation of this article before a court of competent
jurisdiction, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $50 for each
violation.
A. Any person violating any of the provisions of §§
183-31,
183-32,
183-33 and
183-34 shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $40.
[Amended 4-10-2023]
B. With the consent of a person charged with a violation under Article
XI, §
183-34, the Chief of Police or his/her authorized representative is authorized to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $40 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid within seven days after the day that the violation occurs; and to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $50 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid within 30 days after the day that the violation occurs; and to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $75 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid after 30 days after the day that the violation occurs.
[Amended 6-14-1999; 4-9-2001; 4-20-2009; 3-18-2019; 4-10-2023]
C. With the consent of a person charged with a violation under Article
XI, §
183-32, the Chief of Police or his/her authorized representative is authorized to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $40 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid within seven days after the day that the violation occurs; and to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $50 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid within 30 days after the day that the violation occurs; and to accept and receive, without a hearing, the sum of $75 as a penalty for such violation if the penalty is paid after 30 days after the day that the violation occurs.
[Added 4-9-2001; amended 4-20-2009; 3-18-2019; 4-10-2023]
D. The Police Department shall create a list with the licenses and registration
numbers of motor vehicles which have outstanding and overdue parking
violations, which citations total in the amount of $150 or more in
unpaid fines or total in number of three or more parking tickets,
whichever is the lesser. If any such motor vehicle is found parked
on the street of the City of Lewes, it shall be towed and impounded
in some convenient garage or other storage facility within or near
the City, and before the same shall be released therefrom, the owner
thereof shall pay all unpaid parking violations or citations issued
to such vehicle, the cost of towing, a reasonable charge for storage
and any court costs. In addition, said owner shall sign a receipt
for such motor vehicle prior to it being released to him/her by the
storage facility.
[Added 6-10-2002; 3-18-2019]
Any vehicle unlawfully parked within any parking meter zone
may be taken into possession by the City of Lewes Police Department
and towed to some proper storage place and there held until the penalty
provided for is paid and until the further sum of towing is paid and
any and all reasonable storage charges incurred in storing said vehicle
shall also be paid.